#50th-anniversary — Public Fediverse posts
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Pulled out some of the collection for Apple’s 50th anniversary! #apple50 #50thanniversary #apple
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Genuinely proud to see @tripsy get 'App of the Day' on #Apple's #50thAnniversary.
It's coming up on a year since I started working with @thiagosanchz and @rafaelks to handle customer support for this wonderful travel app.
If you're on iPhone, iPad, or Mac do check it out:
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As #Apple approaches its #50thAnniversary, thinking of what the company could have achieved if only it had pursued the lucrative Internet Café business
More excavation of memorabilia…
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The 50th April 1st is coming #Apple #50thAnniversary
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Throwback Thursday – My Gold Medal
I will always cherish when I finally earned my Bluecoats penny.https://medi-nerd.com/2026/02/19/throwback-thursday-my-gold-medal/
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🎉 Ah, the KIM-1 turns 50, and what better way to celebrate than a GitHub demo no one asked for, buried under a pile of buzzword salad? 🤖 Just remember, folks: nothing screams "party" like platform #AI and code security lingo. 🎂
https://github.com/netzherpes/KIM1-Demo #KIM1 #50thAnniversary #GitHubDemo #BuzzwordSalad #CodeSecurity #HackerNews #ngated -
‘Time Warp’ dance still winning hearts as ‘Rocky Horror’ turns 50 – USA Today
Let’s do the ‘Time Warp’ again! The story behind ‘Rocky Horror’s signature song
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY
Barry Bostwick has a witty response at the ready anytime someone asks him if he can do the Time Warp.
“I go, ‘Well, is it a step to the left or is it a step to the right?’ They have to say it’s to the left. I say, ‘Because I only remember the pelvic thrust.’ That to me was the most important part of that dance,” says “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” star about one of the soundtrack’s signature songs.
The music of “Rocky Horror” for decades has entertained generations of fans, from the original 1973 stage show in England to the 1975 cult classic movie to so many revivals and midnight showings since. (The film’s 50th anniversary is being celebrated with a newly restored version on tour through November and a 4K Blu-ray/DVD out Oct. 7.) Everybody’s got their favorite showtune, but what was supposed to just be a twist on the Twist, the buoyant and catchy “Time Warp,” found a life of its own.Join our Watch Party!
Fran-N-Furter (Tim Curry, center) with his minions Columbia (Nell Campbell), Magenta (Patricia Quinn) and Riff Raff (Richard O’Brien) in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”“The genius thing was the ‘Time Warp’ told you how to do it,” says Patricia Quinn, who played the servant Magenta on both stage and screen. “The only other song to do that was the ‘Hokey Pokey.’
‘Time Warp’ came from needing a ‘Rocky Horror’ dance
Rehearsing for the original “The Rocky Horror Show” stage show in 1973, director Jim Sharman wanted a song-and-dance number for the three servants. Riff Raff (O’Brien), Magenta and Columbia (Nell Campbell) are minions of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a lingerie-clad mad scientist from the planet Transsexual who creates a “Frankenstein”-esque muscle man named Rocky.
Campbell recalls Sharman asking for something like the scene in Jean-Luc Godard’s French film “Bande à Part” “where two gangsters and their moll put some money in a jukebox, and the three of them in unison dance the Madison.” (A popular 1950s line dance, the Madison is also mentioned in passing in the “Rocky Horror” movie.)
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Editor’s Note: There is also a good page at Google News covering the film’s 50th. See here…
Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘Time Warp’ dance still winning hearts as ‘Rocky Horror’ turns 50
#2025 #50thAnniversary #America #BarryBostwick #Dance #Education #Film #Films #History #Libraries #Library #Movie #MovieHistory #Movies #Music #ScienceFiction #Television #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow #TimeWarp #UnitedStates #USAToday #YouTube
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Queen Open Up on the Making of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Cover image by ©Mick Rock/Estate of Mick Rock. Motion design by Sara K. Afridi. Image within video by Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images; Andrew Putler/Redferns/Getty Images; Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images, 7; © Queen Productions Ltd; Johnny Dewe Mathews/© Queen Productions Ltd‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ at 50! Brian May and Roger Taylor on Queen’s Masterpiece
Making the most-streamed song from the 20th century took ambition, hard work, and a dash of opera
September 24, 2025
Their real life was about to slip into fantasy, which was pretty much the plan. At the tail end of the 1960s, Roger Taylor and Freddie Bulsara would lie on the floor together, head to head, getting lost in Electric Ladyland, talking about their future.
Maybe they’d share a bottle of wine, nothing stronger. “Fred and I were no good at smoking weed,” Taylor says, more than five decades later. “I used to think my head was on fire at the back. It never did agree.”
Even before Bulsara joined the band that became Queen and renamed himself Freddie Mercury, he and Taylor shared a velvet-heavy fashion sense, a passion for Jimi Hendrix, and some fat-bottomed ambitions. “We wanted to be the best,” says Taylor. “We both really wanted success.” Queen’s drummer is, at the moment, sitting in a vast living room on his 18th-century estate in the British countryside, amid 48 wooded acres. He might not have made it here without the song we’re here to discuss, the moment Queen reached as far as any band ever dared, then went a bit further, and then added a few more “Galileos” for good measure: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
The track, first played on U.K. radio in October 1975 and squeezed onto a seven-inch single at the end of that month, has become the most-streamed song from the 20th century, with more than 2.8 billion plays on Spotify alone. “Incredible,” Brian May says when I visit him the next day. “‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ doesn’t get old, does it? And I suppose that’s the magic for us. We’re lucky that we don’t get old.” He pauses and makes a slight correction. “The music doesn’t seem to get old.”
The statistic leaves little doubt: Queen’s biggest song is on its way to becoming the rock era’s most lasting artifact, Figaro, Beelzebub, and all. “Bohemian Rhapsody” is a five-minute-and-54-second remnant of a brief slice of time when musicians could afford to spend weeks slathering overdubs onto a single track, when engineers made edits with a razor on magnetic tape, when bands raced to push the limits of song structure and recording technology, and maybe when, as Taylor caustically argues, “you actually had to be good at your instrument — that doesn’t seem to be a necessary requisite these days.” Even as Queen labored over “Rhapsody” and the rest of their fourth album, A Night at the Opera, the clock was ticking. Two weeks before the album’s release, the Sex Pistols played their first show in London.
(To hear an audio documentary version of this article on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, press play above, or go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify.)
The song is also, of course, an eternal encapsulation of the brilliance, wit, and pain of its lead voice and composer, Freddie Mercury, who died of complications from AIDS in 1991 when he was just 45. “In certain areas, we feel that we want to go overboard,” he said. “It’s what keeps us going really, darling.… We’re probably the fussiest band in the world.”
On a pleasant late-spring morning, Taylor’s side doors are flung open to his sprawling garden. Somewhere out there, not quite in sight, is a 20-foot-high fiberglass statue of Mercury that once advertised the We Will Rock You musical.
Taylor is positive his late friend would’ve found its new home hilarious. Elsewhere among the greenery is the very same 60-inch gong we hear Taylor strike in the final seconds of “Rhapsody.” “I remember Led Zeppelin had a gong,” Taylor says with a smirk. “So we had a much bigger gong. Pathetic one-upmanship, really.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Queen Open Up on the Making of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
#1975 #2025 #20thCentury #50thAnniversary #BohemianRhapsody #Education #FreddieMercury #History #Libraries #Music #Queen #RockHistory #RockMusic #RogerTaylor #Spotify #UK_ #YouTube
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Star Wars: A New Hope 50th Anniversary Theatrical Re-Release
Star Wars: A New Hope, the iconic film that launched the Skywalker saga and revolutionized Hollywood's franchise frenzy, is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a theatrical re-release in 2027. The highly anticipated event, announced by Disney, will bring the beloved classic back to the big screen on April 30, 2027....
#50thanniversary #ANewHope #Disney #lucasfilm #starwars #theatricalrerelease
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ICYMI: Star Wars: A New Hope Will Return In 2027 For 50th Birthday https://popgeeks.com/star-wars-a-new-hope-will-return-in-2027-for-50th-birthday/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #StarWars #ANewHope #Disney #50thAnniversary #StarWarsDay
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Star Wars: A New Hope 50th Anniversary Theatrical Re-Release
Star Wars: A New Hope, the iconic film that launched the Skywalker saga and revolutionized Hollywood's franchise frenzy, is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a theatrical re-release in 2027. The highly anticipated event, announced by Disney, will bring the beloved classic back to the big screen on April 30, 2027....
#50thanniversary #ANewHope #Disney #lucasfilm #starwars #theatricalrerelease
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Star Wars: A New Hope 50th Anniversary Theatrical Re-Release
Star Wars: A New Hope, the iconic film that launched the Skywalker saga and revolutionized Hollywood's franchise frenzy, is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a theatrical re-release in 2027. The highly anticipated event, announced by Disney, will bring the beloved classic back to the big screen on April 30, 2027....
#50thanniversary #ANewHope #Disney #lucasfilm #starwars #theatricalrerelease
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La battigia si tinge di rosso: qui il thriller è storia vera
#jaws #50thanniversary #sharkmovie #stevenspielberg #sharkattack #losqualo
https://boomerissimo.it/2025/07/10/lo-squalo-prima-della-squalo-sangue-e-terrore-vero-ad-amity/